Out of memory while booting? update

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 06 April 2009 15:13, Charles G Montgomery wrote:
> A (lack of) progress report on my boot attempt failures.  Feel free
> to ignore.
>...
>
> The problem seems to come during the loading of modules.

    You reported trying to boot other Linux distributions.  Does it hang 
up on the same module(s) when these other distributions boot?  If not, 
it is hardware.  Unrelated software modules shouldn't all suddenly 
develop a software induced loading problem.

    Again, I would suggest a tiny OS such as DSL Linux (or even MSDOS).  
DSL in particular uses Ethernet and many other hardware facilities 
while residing in the first 16MB of RAM.  (MSDOS uses fewer hardware 
facilities but resides in the first 640K.)  If either of these load and 
operate without a problem, the high memory address lines are likely 
malfunctioning.

Jim Kuzdrall